Community- What I love about community is that even Britta, the character everyone recognises as the unfunny one from time to time highlights her inherently unfunny nature and its always hilarious. In every other sitcom she would be the weak link because for the most part she’s playing the straight man, and I guess that’s the joke. Gillian Jacobs is paying Britta as someone who’s trying to play the straight man by being cool and laid back when she’s just as neurotic and weird as the rest of the cast……I think I just wrinkled by brain with all that meta shit….

Anyway Vaughan is back as Annie’s love interest and gets to say things like “Everyone is my bro in the whole entire universe because everything is connected. Rocks. Eagles. Hats.” Ending up with a Vaughan/Annie/Troy triangle that without a doubt is going to become my favourite storyline.  Also the rest of Derrick Comedy show up and a C rate comedy troop.  

GRADE: A

30 Rock- The show that got me started on NBC’s Thursday night of awesomeness. A lot of reviews I’ve read have suggested that the show just ain’t what it used to be,  and I see where their coming from, it has changed over the years but that’s to be expected on its fourth season, but it’s still head and shoulders above most comedies on TV. In a lot of ways this episode reminded me of the earlier seasons, the jokes coming a lot thicker and faster than they have been recently.  Story wise its standard sitcom fare; Jenna’s nightmare of a stage mother shows up,( hilarity ensues), while Frank moves in with Liz and they both try to quite their personal vices (hilarity ensues). But what makes this show stand out is how they’re handled, the Jenna storyline serves more as a vehicle to showcase the messed up awesomeness of Jacks relationship with his own mother Colleen. Who unlike Jenna’s mother who is really just a parasite, cares about her son more than anything and no matter how bizarre their interactions might be Colleen, in her own way is actually a good mother.  Unlike say Friends, NBC’s current comedic line up never sacrifices character for comedy. They merge comedy and story so well there’s no detectable divide, so when they have moments that should be saccharine, like Annie and Vaughan reuniting at the end of this week’s Community, you’re willing to give it a lot more leeway than other shows would probably get.

GRADE: A-